And the earth was of one language, and of one speech. (Genesis 11:1)

And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there. (Genesis 11:2)

And they said one to another, Go to let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter. (Genesis 1:3)

And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered aboad upon the face of the whole earth. (Genesis 11:4)

And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded, (Genesis 11;5)

Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imaged to do. (Genesis 11:6)

Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech. (Genesis 11:7)

So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. (Genesis 11:8)

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. (Genesis 11:9)